Unemployment rate when obama left office
28 Oct 2015 The country's unemployment rate has been lower at the end of every Democrat's tenure since Kennedy took office in 1961. Obama has a better record there than Bush, but that's a distinction between this presidency and By the time Obama left office, the jobless rate was down to 4.8 percent — well below the historical norm of 5.6 percent (the median rate for all the months since Truman’s inauguration in January 1949). But getting down to that point was a long, slow grind. So slow that over all of Obama’s 96 months in office,